Stone Soup and Skills, Root Words, Affixes and Linking Verbs

Unit 4, Week 1 (attached has the current /oo/ spelling pattern)

Spelling: er, it, ur, wor, ear
Cliff Hanger cartoon: 'ir/ur' "The Dirty Purple Shirt"

/oo/ Spelling:
Quizlet-Practice your spelling. :) Fun!
More /oo/ words       Even more /oo/ words
oo Pronunciation
oo sound (moon)    oo sound (book)
Cambridge Challenge /oo/ words - Pint out

Root Words and Affixes:
Print "Build a Word" to play with Root Words and Affixes! A fun way to learn
Print and Play "Root-O" a root word game
8 pages of PRINTABLE Root Words with meanings
The Largest Amount of Root Words
Suffix: 'ly video
Prefixes: "Un" People - Between the Lions cartoon
Affixes song by The Bazillions
Suffix: 'tion - Electric Company Song
The three sounds of 'ed' sorting video
Affix match - print out- It's great!
Root It! Game - print out
Affix game - print out

Linking Verbs:
Linking Verb Song by Melissa-YouTube
3rd grade class sings Linking Verb song
School House Rock, VERB, video
Linking Verb lesson - In case you forget
Easy Linking Verb worksheet
Circle the Linking Verb worksheet
Linking verb video with suffix 'ing'
Take the Linking Verb quiz - Challenge yourself! :)

Folk Tales:
Kids gen Folk Tales
Between The Lions: Folktales and Fables
Aaron's Stories - Folk Tales
Pitara-Folktales
Famous American Folktales-like the Jersey Devil (click on 'j')
Funny Folk Tales
Chicken Little (English Folktale)

Stone Soup Versions:
The original Stone Soup story from 1808! (How old is it?) :)
Short Version with moral of the story included
Nail Soup - A Swedish Folktale

Amazon: Stone Soup book (my book)
Amazon: Another version with 2 travelers
Amazon: A flip book version with CD
Amazon: A 1947 version!
Amazon: Nail Soup - A Swedish Folktale
Amazon: Cactus Soup - a Mexican version
Amazon: Bone Button Borscht (alliteration) - Another version of Stone Soup
Walmart: A Stone Soup Story With Matzoh Balls
Walmart: A Spectacular Stone Soup - A classroom makes Stone Soup
Amazon: a Chinese version with 3 Monks traveling after a war in China
Amazon: The-Real Story of Stone Soup - A Chinese Folktale (From class)
Nail Soup play by kids - YouTube

February - Black History, Valentine's Day (See Right Side for Presidents and Poetry)

Click for your project:
Biography: Black Inventors
PBS African-American World
Do You Know These People? Black History slideshow
History for Kids-Black History
TFK Inspiring African Americans slide show-Read all about it!
Fun Family Education-Black History
Black Heroes
History.com-Black History
Reading Rockets - Black History
TFK Black History

Valentine's Day activities and poems

Moonshot, Apollo 11, KSC Info

Here's launch information:
KSC Space X Falcon 9 Launch
KSC
Rocket Garden Live Web Cam
Florida four-pack of tickets $139 to KSC

Apollo 11:
Kidport - Moon landing
Science Kids - Moonlanding video
Discovery - Moon Landing videos
Launch video
The Eagle Has Landed video
Apollo 11-YouTube
Brian Floca Moonshot links
Brian Floca's Blog
Brian Floca's Twitter
Order Moonshot from Walmart
Order Moonshot from Amazon

Download: Space-shuttle-mission flight simulator
Name the craters